Blending problems

[ericthelander]

Hello

Some of the cutscenes I create have problems with blending between animation clips. Sometimes it work like it should but then suddenly the characters blend from clip A to their non animated pose and then to clip B. The effect is similar to walking then sitting down for 3 frames and then continue walk.

I cannot reproduce this error and it wont go away if I restart unity. A scene can be be working fine at the end of the day and then the next day the blending wont work.

Is this a known problem and is there a fix for it or something I should refrain from doing in order to avoid it?

Thanks,
Eric

[ericthelander]

Some more details on the matter.

Blending from Clip A to Clip B, the overlap is about three frames. When clip B starts it is as if clip A is cut of, giving the effect that clip B blends from nothing.

[Gavalakis]

Hello Eric,

Hmm. If two clips are cross-blended, even if only for a couple of frames, then the animation should blend from one to the other correctly.
Is there any way you think I can reproduce this behavior please?
I tried a couple of things, but I wasn’t able to reproduce this considering that the two clips are cross-blended, and thus their BlendOut and BlendIn values in the inspector respectively for ClipA and ClipB is greater than 0.

Please let me know.
Thanks!

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[ericthelander]

Hello

Thank you for looking into this. Sorry I cannot give you instructions on how to reproduce this, which is a bummer. I will try to pay close attention to when it happends and recall all steps I’ve taken. I did however managed to find a way to some what remedy the problem but it also adds to the mystery.

I choose replace actor on the faulty character but leaves the actor field empty. I then drag n drop the character to create a new actor track. I activate root motion on the new actor and copy all clips from the old actor track to the new one. Now the new actortrack works.

Regards,
Eric

[ericthelander]

It happend again but I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary so no luck in reproducing. I also found out that I only have to duplicate the entire actor track, disable the old one and drag the character to the new track and then it’s like the error never happend. I can continue working on the new track.

/Eric

[Gavalakis]

Hello Eric,

Thanks for the follow up.
I just want to let you know that I am still actively looking at this problem and thus means to reproduce it before fixing it of course.

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[tt_rage]

Hi All,

We are currently experiencing a similar issue with blending between animations: Blending from one anim to another with a short (0.3 second) blend overlap results in a y-axis translation “pop”, which settles back down to the correct y-position over the duration of the blend. Neither from- not the to-animations contain this y-axis displacement.

Note, we experience this bug intermittently, but this is the latest example.

Dan.

[Gavalakis]

Hello,

Can any of you guys please send me through an example project that has this blending problem happening?
It would be of great help to track this issue down, since I can’t seem to be able to reproduce this somehow.

If possible please send me to ” support_AT_paradoxnotion.com “.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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[ericthelander]

I will try to strip down a scene where this happends and send it to you, but it might take a couple of days as I cannot reproduce it.

/Eric

[tt_rage]

Yeah, we’re having the same problems reproducing it too but if it turns up in one of our test scenes I’ll forward it on.

Dan.

[Gavalakis]

Thanks guys!

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